Clement
Very cool project, the French-style refeuling probe looks wacky (but in a good way?)
Best of luck!

Łukasz Gliński
Following 👍

Michael Kohl
Count me in. Seeing this kit I promise I will not complain about the Clear Prop kit anymore. 😉

Alec K
Taking a seat.

Łukasz Gliński
I was just wondering - the cardboard hangar for this project wouldn't even require painting 😉 It really looks like made of paper on these airshow pics 😄

Raphael Bernecole
Nice Project ! 🙂

Guy Rump
I'm taking a seat too. 👍

Cuajete
Me 8!

I agree with Łukasz hilarious comment 😄

Great job so far, Marius! 👌

Alec K
Excellent effort, very impressive 👍

Clement
Very promising!

Bernd Grün
Great job so far, Marius! 👌

Cuajete
Fantastic job so far, Marius!
Could that scriber be like this other one? I think it's 1mm thick:

Scriber (Vallejo T10001, No)

Marius Author
Thank you guys for following.

@ Lukasz: I never noticed the similarity to cardboard, but now thanks to you, I can't unsee it. 😆
@Cuajete: yes, that is the tool. I was looking for it last night, but couldn't find it. Thank you for the link!

Finn
Nice, will follow

Thomas Kolb
The camo paintjob looks splendid! I am really impressed with such consistent soft color transitions.

Ekki
Will follow too.

Marius Author
Thank you Thomas, Ekki and Finn!

@Thomas, I did greatly evolve in that respect since I switched to the Mr. Hobby paints. Since then, I do mostly or only free hand airbrush camo painting. I guess paint quality matters a lot.

@Clement: I know your comment is only 5 months old, but that IFR probe was intriguing to me too and until recently I had no answer to that. It seems that this is the only known documented Iraqi MiG-23 to receive the IFR probe, with a couple of more assumed or rumoured to have received this modification (although there is no evidence for that). I will go as far as assuming the Iraqis retrofitted the IFR probe from their Mirage F1s. Any resemblence is purely "accidental".
airliners.net/photo/..age-F1EQ-5/4153627/L

On a side note, two Lybian MiG-23BNs are also known to have received a similar French style probe (with one crashed and lost in 2016):
cdn-images-1.medium...gN8E1E-4s0LiiVw.jpeg

Full article on the Lybian ones here:
medium.com/war-is-bo..mig-23s-af840188b278

Clement
It's good to see this one with her colors. Looks like the hardest part is behind you, I hope it will go smoothly until the finish line.
Thanks for the pics and article, very informative stuff.

Nicolas
I missed this one. Looks very good so far. I Will follow across the finish line.

Christian Lehmann
👍

Raphael Bernecole
Very nice work ! 🙂

Erik Leijdens
Great craftmanship along the way Marius! You sure know how to turn this kit into a masterpiece. great work!

Marius Author
Thank you mates, the finish line should be near!

Clement
Impressive work, your efforts have paid off!

Tommy Agne
Top work Marius! Congrats👍👍👍.

aetios
That is just great. I love those soviet hotrods and you did this one justice!

Nicolas
Great result Marius, congrats. Can't wait for the Diorama.

Curatorm
You made a jaw dropper...

Guy Rump
Great result! 👍

Tibor Szilvai
Fantastic work! 👍

Cuajete
Wow... great job. Fantastic result.
Congrats!

Alec K
Outstanding build with thorough research Marius. Filing for when I tackle this subject 👍

Marius Author
Thank you guys so much for taking the time to look in the album.

The diorama will follow in any case, so the thread will keep going.

Ekki
Only see this now.
A beauty!
Well done!